Landlord and tenant – Discrimination – MCAD

Where (1) the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination found and ruled that a landlord had discriminated against a mother of four children in connection with her application for rental housing and (2) a Superior Court judge overturned that ruling and entered a judgment on the pleadings in favor of the landlord, the Superior Court judgment must be reversed because the judge failed to accord the deference due the specialized knowledge of the MCAD in its determination of what constituted “available” housing.